Nuclear Weapons Expert: Iran's Gas Centrifuges Produces Enriched Uranium Hexafluoride, a Gas that Cannot be Used to Make a Nuclear Weapon!

- Nuclear Weapons Expert: Iran’s Gas Centrifuges Produces Enriched Uranium Hexafluoride, a Gas that Cannot be Used to Make a Nuclear Weapon!
by Nile Bowie, http://rt.com/news/ , March 26, 2013
From talk of “red lines” and cartoon bombs to having “all options on the table”, an undeniably delusional logic emanates from the leadership in Washington and Tel Aviv regarding the alleged threat posted by Iran’s nuclear program.
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When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu famously took to the stage of the UN General Assembly with his doodled explosive, he claimed that Iran would soon have the capability to enrich uranium to 90 percent, allowing them to construct a nuclear weapon by early-mid 2013. In his second administration, Obama, who recently said a nuclear Iran would represent a danger to Israel and the world, appears to be seeing eye-to-eye with Netanyahu, despite previous reports of the two not being on the same page. For whatever its worth, these two world leaders have taken the conscious decision to entirely ignore evidence put forward by the US intelligence community, as well as appeals from nuclear scientists, policy advisers, and IAEA personnel who claim that the “threat” posed by Iran is exaggerated and politicized.
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It’s common knowledge that Washington’s own National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran, which reflects the intelligence assessments of America’s 16 spy agencies, confirmed that whatever nuclear weapons program Iran once had was dismantled in 2003. Hans Blix, former chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), has challenged previous IAEA reports on Iran’s nuclear activities, accusing the agency of relying on unverified intelligence from the US and Israel. Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett, former Washington insiders and analysts in the Clinton and Bush administrations, recently authored a book titled“Going to Tehran”, arguing that Iran is a coherent actor and that evidence for the bomb is simply not there.
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Clinton Bastin, former director of US nuclear weapons production programs, has commented on the status of Iran’s capacity to produce nuclear weapons, stating, “The ultimate product of Iran’s gas centrifuge facilities would be highly enriched uranium hexafluoride, a gas that cannot be used to make a weapon. Converting the gas to metal, fabricating components and assembling them with high explosives using dangerous and difficult technology that has never been used in Iran would take many years after a diversion of three tons of low enriched uranium gas from fully safeguarded inventories. The resulting weapon, if intended for delivery by missile, would have a yield equivalent to that of a kiloton of conventional high explosives”. Bastin’s assessments corroborate reports that show Iran’s nuclear program is for civilian purposes; he further emphasizes the impracticality of weaponizing the hexafluoride product of Tehran’s gas-centrifuges, as the resulting deterrent would yield a highly inefficient nuclear weapon.
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